With sniffles and coughs already echoing through crowded lecture halls, the UCLA community once again has to decide whether to get a flu shot. Scientifically speaking, the choice is obvious: Every member of the UCLA community that can get the vaccine should get it as soon as possible. Getting the vaccine is a public health […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Submission: Conversation around mental health must change
While tabling at the Enormous Activities Fair for “All of Us: A Campaign to Rethink Mental Health,” I asked several people what the first thing that came to their mind was when I said “mental health.” Unfortunately, most answers to that question included “disorder,” “disability,” “disease,” “insanity,” “craziness,” “suicide” and “depression.” Most of these responses […]
Zoey Freedman: Proposed soda tax an ineffective solution
If Proposition E and Measure D – which would add a tax to sweetened beverages – pass, living in some parts of California will not be as sweet. Both San Francisco and Berkeley will have measures on their ballots this fall proposing to add a tax of 2 cents and 1 cent per ounce, respectively, […]
Samah Pirzada: Success of plastic bag ban dependent on student commitment
The California ban on single-use plastic bags is a huge step toward reducing litter, but it might not be as effective a change as its advocates assume. On Sept. 30, Gov. Jerry Brown became the first governor to sign a statewide ban on plastic bags in grocery and convenience stores. Many California cities already instituted […]
UCLA must provide reporters, students proper access to public records
When UCLA denies or delays members of the media access to public records, it robs the students who pay thousands of dollars in tuition every year. By guarding information that should be public, the university is stealing people’s right to know how its money is being spent, and how it is acting in its capacity […]
Aram Ghoogasian: More specific guidelines for general representative position necessary
Trying to do too much and not trying hard enough can be equally dangerous when you’re an elected official, especially when your term is only a year long. Political platforms need to be ambitious enough to yield tangible results or be left at the door. This is a problem that has plagued many Undergraduate […]
Submission: UCLA should revive green spaces on campus
The conventional view is that the UCLA campus goes into sleep mode during the summer, and that the weeks of late September bear witness to the rebirth of life on campus. But in one key respect, the opposite phenomenon occurs: throughout the summer, the grass fields in front of Royce Hall and below Janss steps […]